Washington DC Historic photos, documents, and people

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Washington, D.C. District grocery store warehouse on 4th Street S.W. Man on the platform calls out orders, which the men of the produce department are loading onto small trucks. This goes on from about

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. This mother has found in her closet some metal hangers, which her son will stack in the cellar for contribution in the scrap collecting campaig

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. "Sleeping" scrap in an attic. This means that these are objects unused by the family and should be contributed in the scrap collecting campaign

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. "Sleeping" scrap in an attic. This means that these are objects unused by the family and should be contributed in the scrap collecting campaign

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Washington schoolchildren also collect string to tie their bundles of scrap paper. In the meantime they studied the history and manufacture of

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Washington schoolchildren fold cartons so that they will pack flat and can be tied in bundles which are collected by paper company truck once a

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Metal skelton of an old car which has been burned in order to get rid of useless materials after being stripped of saleable parts at the wholes

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Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. After saleable parts are removed from old cars, the cars are burned in order to strip them of useless materials and to obtain metal skeleton fo

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Washington, D.C. Hugh and Lynn Massman consulting the directory of the United Nations Service Center. Newly arrived in Washington, they find they can leave their baby in the nursery while they go sight